Frank McCormick wrote: > Sounds like a good idea. I like running bleeding-edge software but > not if I have to spend a lot of time on the BTS :) Can I just make a > simple change in my sources list to "testing" and wait for > everything to catch up? For the next two months I would run Wheezy. It just released. It will be very similar to the Sid of just before that time. deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy main deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy-updates main deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main Testing has already started to get propagation of new packages from Sid. All of the packages blocked due to the freeze were unblocked. But also all of the new packages going into Sid will be there ten days and if no one finds any reason to stop it then they will flow into Testing. So in about ten days Testing will get a large impulse spike of new packages. Therefore I would wait out the instability in Testing Jessie by sticking with Wheezy and getting security upgrades from it. I would sit there for... oh... say... two months. By then things should have settled down. Then you could move back to Testing. deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian jessie main deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main > I have run Sid for years and it **seems** that it wasn't this > disruptive ? (see my other message about apt-get wanting to purge > gedit and rhythmbox etc) Human memory is a funny thing. It isn't really very good at these things. What you should do is keep track of it in a journal. Memory is usually fault. Instead write down every time you have a problem. Keep a record. If you do that then you will find that there are waves of problems that come and go. I have been keeping record of my problems since 2011-04-03. From then through 2011 I had 41 problems in sid. That was half a year when Sid was active and unfrozen. In all of 2012 I had 37 problems. That was when Sid was frozen and the freeze definitely reduced the number of problems in Sid. So far in 2013 I have had 5 problems but the year is young and things are no longer frozen. Bob
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